----- "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:

I don't see anything wrong with the traceroute. There is no router output showing drops or other errors, so who knows about that. Is he just concerned with the number of hops? That's not impacting his service. Boston to NYC is 7msec. Then 22-23msec from NYC to Chicago.

My read was just that he included the traceroute so the OP could see the route in question, not that he was holding it up as an example of the problem. Seems sensible to me, though he could have been more explicit. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.